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disturbed, thus evidencing the fact that the man had been swallowed whole. In deed, as this shark has the balaena common to the whales, in place of the teeth usual to the sharks, it cannot bite or chew, and must swallow what ever it takes into its mouth in one' entire piece. The sad remains of what once had been a man were identified as the missing soldier, and the mystery of his case was thus cleared up to the satis faction of the authorities. After thirty days there was no possible chance that a man in such condition could survive; this is merely recorded here to establish the fact that the rhinodon typicus does on occasion swallow human beings with out harm to them in the process. That such experiences are more com mon than is generally believed may be seen from the following press clipping. We reproduce the news item in its en tirety, having taken pains to prove the accuracy of the report: Honolulu, T.H., Sept. 2—(By United Press)—Mystery surrounding the dis appearance several days ago of Sadao Nakatus, a Honolulu merchant, was cleared up Wednesday when fishermen found his body inside a huge shark which they caught off Barber's Point. Identification of the body was through dental work. Nakatus and another merchant, Mi noru Kayagawa, set out last Sunday in a skiff on a fishing expedition. When they failed to return, the destroyer Gam ble and the minesweeper Tanager VI be gan a search for them. Airplanes also joined in the search. The merchant’s overturned skiff was found thirty miles off the point, but no trace of either man was found. Three fishermen caught two sharks in the vicinity of the point Wednesday, brought them ashore, cut them open, and inside of one they found the body of Nakatus. Two naval aviators who joined the search risked their lives in the shark- infested waters when a plane made a forced landing sixty miles from Hono lulu. The plane, piloted by Lieut. W. L. Rees, rode the seas until the destroyer arrived to take it in tow. The tragic conclusion of this episode is explained by the phrase, “ several days ago.” The question that must be settled in the light of this present inquiry is, “What would become of a man who was in this dangerous predicament for just three days and nights?” Once more we have a recent event that will shed some light on the problem. Some time ago a magazine devoted to current events contained an account of an English sailor who was swallowed by a gigantic rhinodon in the English (Continued on Page 25) FISHERMEN FIND BODY OF MISSING MERCHANT INSIDE GIANT SHARK
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“ Indo-Pacific shark,” and the “whale- shark,” hy which latter name it is most commonly known. Some time ago a specimen was captured off the coast of Florida, exhibited about the country, and finally sent to the Smithsonian In stitute. This was a comparatively small specimen, being thirty-six feet in length. This shark gets its common name, the “whale-shark,” from the fact that its oral cavity is similar to the struc ture found in the whale. Sometimes it reaches the length of fifty feet, and one account tells of the largest specimen captured, seventy feet in length. This shark, having no teeth, feeds like the whale, straining its food through great plates in its mouth. It has a capacious maw and could readily swallow a man. Indeed, we have collected many in stances where this very thing has oc curred. Out of these multiplied occa sions we will consider just three. The first record comes to us from the Hawaiian Islands, in the shark-infested waters of which the rhinodon is a com mon visitor. During a visit to the islands, we heard that a certain soldier from Schofield Barracks, on the Island of Oahu, was reported missing without leave. Thirty days after the man dis appeared, a party of Japanese fisher men set out from Hilo to spread their nets, and were chagrined to find a rhinodon basking on the surface in the vicinity where they desired to spread their nets. The feeding habits of these great fish are interesting, but fatal to the nets of a fisherman. The shark will bask on the surface of the sea, apparently asleep, until assailed by hunger. Then utterly without warning it will open its ca pacious maw, and with its eyes closed will charge at full speed through the water, engulfing whatever may be float ing near the surface. With a weight of many tons, and a velocity that makes that weight irre sistible, woe to the flimsy nets that jneet this charging monster! So fisher men never spread their nets when the rhinodon is in the region. But the flesh of the shark is used for fertilizer on some of the plantations, and a cent a pound is the reward of the men who capture one. So the fishermen put back to the port, and procured their harpoons and a high- powered rifle. Quietly approaching the basking creature, they succeeded in their purpose and captured it without much difficulty, and towed the body to the beach. There they cut it open to examine the contents of the stomach, and found therein the skeleton of a six- foot male human being. After thirty days in this weird sepulchre, there was naught left but the bones of the frame, but every bone was undamaged and un- F E B R U A R Y , 1 9 5 2
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